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Sipri Report: New President Donald Trump's foreign policy on Ukraine can put a fullstop on this weapon race. Ukraine was the only European country among the top 10 arms importing countries in the world between 2020-2024. In the report …Read more
America sold a lot of weapons
Highlights
- Ukraine was the largest weapon importer in 2020-2024.
- America became the world's largest arms exporter.
- India cut arms imports due to self -sufficiency.
Sipri report: The war between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for more than 3 years. This battle started on 2 February 2022, it was not of Ukraine alone to draw such a long. America and Noto countries continued to give weapons and continued to move forward. When the rust of war is around the world, then that country also continued to increase its weapons. Especially America and its supported countries. The countries of Europe are involved in this. And the same thing happened. America's weapon companies became silver. A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has revealed that the US became the world's largest arms Exporter. Ukraine became the largest buyer in these four years. The purchase of weapons from 2020 to 2024 from Ukraine to 2019 increased by more than 100 percent.
Around 9 seats of arms exports have gone to Ukraine
35 countries of the world helped Ukraine with weapons. In which America is at the forefront. Ukraine got 8.8 percent of the world's total imports. The highest number of in this was 45 percent from the US, 12 per cent from Germany and 11 per cent of Poland. Ukraine topped the countries buying 10 arms during the year 2020-24.
European NATO member countries fierce weapons
Between 2015–2019 and 2020–2024, the purchase of weapons of NATO member countries of Europe recorded a 105 percent increase. The largest part of this purchase was done from America. The US supplied 64 percent of these weapons. This was much higher than in 2015–2019. Among the rest of the countries selling arms to Europe's countries, 6.5-6.5 per cent were France and South Korea, 4.7 per cent of Germany and 3.9 per cent of Israel. Apart from this, many European countries made a tremendous increase in their weapon purchases during this time period. The threat of war on the countries helping it helping it among Russia Ukraine can hover at any time. Therefore, those countries strengthened themselves.
India less purchased from abroad
Due to the self -sufficient India campaign, now India is now slowly cutting the purchase of weapons. India used to be at number two in the purchase of arms. According to SIPRI report
The reason for this purchase was the dual challenge of China and Pakistan. In the last 4 years, 8.3 Fasadi for the purchase of total weapons around the world was from India. This was 9.1 percent from 2015 to 2019. A decrease of about 9.3 percent has been recorded. This is a good sign for the self -sufficient mission of India. Between 2020 and 2024, the largest 36 percent of India's defense procurement was from Russia. This percentage was 55 percent during the year 2015-19 and 72 percent between 2010- 2014. After Russia, 33 percent of the purchase was made from France and 13 percent from Israel. There was a tremendous increase in the purchase of weapons in Pakistan. Pakistan has purchased 81 percent of its weapons from China. Pakistan became the lead buyer of China. Between 2015 and 2019, this purchase was 74 percent.
